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teart

  • adjective
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teart, adj.
Tart, sharp (of pain, punishment, etc.), severe; acer, asper
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  • Sticol oððe teart

    asper,

    • Wulck. Gl. 256, 32.

  • Ús ðincþ swíðe teart wíte ðæt án úre fingra on fýr becume,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 590, 32.

  • Ðæt hé ne ðurfe becuman tó ðam teartum bryne,

    • 592, 17.

  • Hé álýsþ mé fram teartum worde

    (

    a uerbo aspero

    ),
    • Ps. Lamb. 90, 3.

  • Beó him gesǽd ða teartan wítu,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 344, 32: Homl. Skt. i. 11, 82.

  • Mid teartum wítum getintregod,

    • 8, 156.

  • Mid teartum swingellum

    acribus uerberibus,

    • R. Ben. 54, 4.

  • Mislimp tearte

    casus asperos,

    • Hymn. Surt. 16, 5.

  • Teartere þrǽlung

    acrior correptio,

    • R. Ben. Interl. 59, 6.

  • Hine man þreáge mid teartran steóre,

    • R. Ben. 52, 6.

  • Hé stíðran and teartran steóre underló

    majori uindicte subjaceat,

    • 71, 8.
Etymology
[Chaucer uses tart = sharp to the taste Poudre-marchaunt tart,
  • Prol. 381.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “teart.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30256.

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